US4000014A - Process for producing ductile superconductive alloys - Google Patents

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US4000014A
US4000014A US05/507,072 US50707274A US4000014A US 4000014 A US4000014 A US 4000014A US 50707274 A US50707274 A US 50707274A US 4000014 A US4000014 A US 4000014A
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  • This invention relates to a process for producing ductile, superconductive alloys by incorporating one or more superconductive compounds by fusion in a base metal having good electrical and heat conductive properties; for example, copper, silver, aluminum, or the like.
  • a base metal having good electrical and heat conductive properties; for example, copper, silver, aluminum, or the like.
  • the individual particles of the superconductive compound or compounds are finely distributed in the base metal and are mutually spaced apart in such a way that the critical value for the tunnel effect is not exceeded.
  • a process for producing ductile, inherently stable, superconductive wires is already known wherein the starting materials consist of alloys on a copper or aluminum base with superconductive intermetallic compounds, such a niobium and tin, incorporated therein by fusion (see German Patent 2,116,260).
  • superconductive intermetallic compounds such as a niobium and tin, incorporated therein by fusion
  • elongated deposits, for example, of the intermetallic compound Nb 3 Sn are obtained by directional solidification.
  • the alloy which is produced in this way can be processed by wire drawing porcesses, inter alia, to form superconductive wires.
  • it is essential that the spaces between the extended precipitates are minimized to such an extent by the deformation process that they can be superconductively bridged by the tunnel effect.
  • the known processes are subject to the disadvantage of only being suitable for producing cast elements of relatively small dimensions which are, in fact, too small for many applications.
  • these known processes are practically limited to the production of thin wires or wire-like structures as the superconductive alloys can only be produced by rolling and wiredrawing processes in which the incorporated particles of superconductive compounds are arranged parallel to each other and drawn sufficiently closely together (parallel flow lines) for the mutual spacing to be bridged by the tunnel effect.
  • An object of this invention is to eliminate the above disadvantages of the known processes and to disclose a method of producing superconductive alloys which can be further worked in an economic manner to form molded elements of desired shape and dimensions.
  • This process involves a process for incorporating a superconductive compound or compounds by fusion in a base metal having good electrical and heat conductive properties, such as copper, silver, aluminum, and gold.
  • the process includes preparing a melt of the base metal and of the alloy components which combine to form the superconductive compound or compounds having a ⁇ - W (A 15 ) structure.
  • the melt is solidified at a cooling rate of at least 1000° C./sec.
  • a ductile superconductive alloy is formed, wherein the individual particles of the superconductive compounds are finely distributed in the base metal and are mutallly spaced with respect to each other in such a way that the critical value for the tunnel effect is not exceeded.
  • niobium or vanadium and tin aluminum, silicon, gallium, or germanium.
  • the melt is caused to solidify at a cooling speed of 5 ⁇ 10.sup. 4 to 1 ⁇ 10 6 ° C./sec.
  • the rapid solidification of the melt can be carried out (i) by a method known as granulation, (ii) spraying of droplets of the melt, (iii) by centrifugal action onto cooling surfaces, (iv) by spraying, or (v) by melt spinning, and then the solidified alloy particles are worked to form molded bodies.
  • the rapid solidification of the melt is achieved by forcing the melt out of cooled nozzles or by the roll casting process.
  • This invention also includes the alloys produced according to the process of this invention.
  • This invention thus departs from the premise that to produce a superconductive compound having the desired properties, the structural composition thereof must be improved in such a way that an extended form and parallel arrangement of the incorporated superconductive compounds is no longer necessary.
  • This invention also proceeds from the observation that extremely rapid solidification of the alloy melts or cooling rates above the given limit value enable a sufficiently fine distribution of the superconductive compounds to be obtained in the base metal. As a result of the high cooling speed, instead of a few large precipitates, a plurality of small precipitates spaced substantially closer together are produced.
  • the solidification rate of the alloy melt (for instance, in the Cu-Nb-Sn system on the quasibinary section Cu-Nb 3 Sn) is raised to a specific value (in the case of this system it is estimated at about 5,000° C./sec.) the spacing between the minute, finely distributed, superconductive precipitates in the copper matrix falls below the critical value for the tunnel effect.
  • the alloy produced in this way is super-conductive and electrically and mechanically isotropic without having to subject it to further treatment to draw the precipitated particles closer together.
  • the superconductive alloys produced according to this invention are extremely ductile; they can be worked at high levels of deformability without impairing their electrical and mechanical properties, for example, by means of extrusion processes to form hollow sections. With the alloy produced according to this invention, it is also very simple to obtain superconductive connections, for example, by friction welding or by electron beam welding.
  • Example 2 The preferred embodiment of this invention is represented by Example 2.
  • the solidified samples were approximately 10 cm in length and about 5 mm in diameter. In this state, they possessed a transition temperature of about 7° K and after processing to form wires having a diameter of 0.5 mm this rose to 14° K. This represents the prior art.
  • the same alloy was then finely divided into small droplets by means of a rotating centrifugal siphon from graphite in an argon atmosphere.
  • the particles solidified at a solidification rate of about 10 4 ° C./sec. to form a granulate having an average grain diameter of about 0.5 mm.
  • the apparatus had a throughput capacity of 1.2 to /hr.
  • the granulate was then subjected to a reduction annealing process, compacted to form extrusion press plugs having a diameter of 15 cm and subsequently extruded to form tubes having an outer diameter of 20 mm and a wall thickness of 2mm.
  • This alloy was then finely divided into droplets using a rotating centrifugal siphon from graphite in an argon temperature.
  • the particles came to rest at a sharp angle on cooled metal sheets and there solidified to form elongated flake-shaped particles having a thickness of about 50 ⁇ m with a solidification rate of about 10 6 ° C./sec.
  • These particles where then compacted to form extrusion press plugs having a diameter of 6 cm and subsequently extruded to form rods having a diameter of 10 mm.
  • the rods were then worked by means of circular hammers and wire drawing to form wires having a diameter of 1 mm.

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US4265682A (en) * 1978-09-19 1981-05-05 Norboru Tsuya High silicon steel thin strips and a method for producing the same
US4339508A (en) * 1977-11-28 1982-07-13 Shiro Maeda Method for manufacturing a thin and flexible ribbon of superconductor material
US4363769A (en) * 1977-11-23 1982-12-14 Noboru Tsuya Method for manufacturing thin and flexible ribbon wafer of _semiconductor material and ribbon wafer
US4378330A (en) * 1979-03-12 1983-03-29 The United States Of America As Represented By The Department Of Energy Ductile alloy and process for preparing composite superconducting wire
US4414738A (en) * 1981-02-02 1983-11-15 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy Optical lithographic technique for fabricating submicron-sized Josephson microbridges
US4525223A (en) * 1978-09-19 1985-06-25 Noboru Tsuya Method of manufacturing a thin ribbon wafer of semiconductor material
US5041416A (en) * 1988-10-17 1991-08-20 Fmc Corporation Superconductive metal matrix composites and method for making same
US5189009A (en) * 1987-03-27 1993-02-23 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Preparation of superconducting oxides and oxide-metal composites
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US4363769A (en) * 1977-11-23 1982-12-14 Noboru Tsuya Method for manufacturing thin and flexible ribbon wafer of _semiconductor material and ribbon wafer
US4339508A (en) * 1977-11-28 1982-07-13 Shiro Maeda Method for manufacturing a thin and flexible ribbon of superconductor material
US4244722A (en) * 1977-12-09 1981-01-13 Noboru Tsuya Method for manufacturing thin and flexible ribbon of dielectric material having high dielectric constant
US4257830A (en) * 1977-12-30 1981-03-24 Noboru Tsuya Method of manufacturing a thin ribbon of magnetic material
US4525223A (en) * 1978-09-19 1985-06-25 Noboru Tsuya Method of manufacturing a thin ribbon wafer of semiconductor material
US4265682A (en) * 1978-09-19 1981-05-05 Norboru Tsuya High silicon steel thin strips and a method for producing the same
US4378330A (en) * 1979-03-12 1983-03-29 The United States Of America As Represented By The Department Of Energy Ductile alloy and process for preparing composite superconducting wire
US4414738A (en) * 1981-02-02 1983-11-15 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy Optical lithographic technique for fabricating submicron-sized Josephson microbridges
US5189009A (en) * 1987-03-27 1993-02-23 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Preparation of superconducting oxides and oxide-metal composites
US5204318A (en) * 1987-03-27 1993-04-20 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Preparation of superconducting oxides and oxide-metal composites
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